It may provoke Trump, but Canada should cancel the purchase of F-35 fighter jets from the U.S.
It may provoke Trump, but Canada should cancel the purchase of F-35 fighter jets from the U.S.
The problem is that Canada will never have full control over the heavily computerized planes
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With tariffs hammering F-35 sales, I expect the next Eurofighter project will have a lot more resources. I wonder if Canada will get involved.
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Sweden also offered to get us building our own Gripens totally locally. The page for the bid is even still up
I assume we already have pilots trained in flying the F-35 at this point, which sucks if we're never getting them, though.
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This would be amazing for us to bring back military building here in Canada!!
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Especially since the Americans are the ones who convinced us they had enough fighter jets to take care of us so we could/should cancel the Arrow. :/
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I mean, there was also the issue of it just costing a lot as the Diefenbaker conservative government was looking to make cuts.
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Absolute bozo move to not go for this in retrospect. They need to give this a look again asap
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If I had hair, I definitely would have been pulling it out at the time. It's not like this situation came out of nowhere, but normalcy bias won the day.
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